Amplifying Identities Podcast

Welcome to Amplifying Identities, the Podcast, a limited series history podcast from Dr. Priscilla Martinez's Digital History class at UTSA.

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We would also like to thank the UTSA History Club, UTSA Department of History, UTSA Mexico Center, UTSA CEDISH, and the Mija, Listen podcast. We hope that you join us for our episode “Mexican American Women Warriors.” (3/3)

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Thank you for sticking along as we briefly discussed our project into the role of women during and after the U.S. war with Mexico. (1/3)

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There is still much scholarship left to discuss on the topic but we hope that we were able to give you brief insight into a different perspective regarding the war. (2/3)

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Sources:
Christopher Conway, “SISTERS AT WAR: Mexican Women’s Poetry and the U.S.-Mexican War,” Latin American Research Review 47, no. 1 (2012): 8. doi:10.1353/lar.2012.0031.

“Women in the U.S.-Mexican War (U.S. National Park Service),” n.d. https://t.co/gHJd3FLG42. (2/2)

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This poem written by a group of female authors in, “Marcha que la junta patriótica”, depicts the how many women were feeling in regard to the U.S. war with Mexico. Please join us to further discuss how the U.S.-Mexico war impacted women during and after. (1/2)

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Sources: George Kendall, “The Mexican Joan of Arc.” In The U.S. War with Mexico: A Brief History
with Documents, ed. Ernesto Chavez, (Boston, Mass: Bedford/St. Martins, 2008).

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Did you know that women during the U.S.- Mexico war worked as nurses, spies, smugglers, soldiers, and more. (1/3)

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Their role in the war was widely discussed by both sides as seen in George Wilkins Kendall’s, an American correspondent during the Mexican American war, article, ““The Mexican Joan of Arc. (2/3)

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Scharf, Thomas. “María Amparo Ruiz Burton .” San Diego History Center | San Diego, CA | Our City, Our Story, 27 Sept. 2016, https://t.co/G35AZ1cbxM. (4/4)

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Sources:
Maria Raquel Casas, Married to a Daughter of the Land: Spanish-Mexican Women and Interethnic Marriage in Calif., 1820-1880 (University of Nevada Press, 2007), 164. (3/4)

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Source: Maria Raquel Casas, Married to a Daughter of the Land: Spanish-Mexican Women and Interethnic Marriage in Calif., 1820-1880 (University of Nevada Press, 2007), 163. (3/3)

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Did you know that Maria Amparo de Burton published the first English-language book written by a Latina in the United States in 1872 called, “Who Would Have Thought It?.” (1/3)

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The book was originally published under the pseudonym H. S. Burton. Join us in our podcast, part of the AmpID series, to learn more about Maria Amparo various accomplishments. (2/3)

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Source: Maria Raquel Casas, Married to a Daughter of the Land: Spanish-Mexican Women and Interethnic Marriage in Calif., 1820-1880 (University of Nevada Press, 2007), 165.

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María Amparo Ruiz de Burton was the author of The Squatter and the Don, written in 1885. (1/3)

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Originally published under the pseudonym, C Loyal, this novel was where she was able to bring attention to the struggles that many Californians, and Mexican Americans, were dealing with after the U.S. Mexico war. (2/3)